Connecticut western news., 1887-02-09
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 A Lovers Predicament,
 A curious incident happened at Milan not long since. In a family of weavers are two beautiful twin sisters, so ex- actly alike that only their most inti- mate acquaintances can distinguish be- tween them. A young cabinet-maker courted, as he supposed, one girl, but made love to both without knowing it, and the girls kept each her secret. One day recently the cabinet-maker visited the mother and asked the hand of her daughter in marriage. The mother called the girls, and for the first time, he saw them both together, and when asked which of her daughters he sought to mako his companion he was complete ly nonplussed, and could not tell "tother from which," He did not know how to decide, and, as each girl averred that it was she whom he had courted, he asked time to consider which he would take.
 Tho Ncatest Women in the World. Somebody who has travelled extensive ly has been talking in Denver paper about American women, who, he de- clares, are the neatest the world over. As a rule they like to be neat and clean for the comfort of it, though they are some ines found to be slatterns when placed where they believe themselves un- known, and therefore free from criticism. He goes to say: "The habit of neatness or it's opposite is an interesting study in women. The characteristic naturally exists just the same in men, but the cir cumstances governing thelr lives arc such as do not bring out this. phase in such profound fashion. I don't doubt but that some of the greatest slatterns on earth are men, but they are seld om found out, you know. If you are sufficiently intimate with gentleman to gain access to his apartment you will soon have a very excellent method of judging of his habits. If you find his brushes full of hair and lint, his towels and soiled clothes kicking about everywhere, with a bowl of dirty water always on his wash stand, you may easily judge that he will go out in the street with grease spots on his clothes and half-soiled linen on. l spatn's Hard-Workcd Queen.
 The Queen Regent of Spain is proba. bly, the most overworked woman in her dominions. She rises at 7, and as soon as she has made her toilet she sends for her little son and the members of the royal family, and spnds an hour or so with them. At 9 she attends to her household affairs, goes over her accounts, gives her orders for the day, reads her letters, glances through the newspapers, and is ready by 10 or little after to re- ceive the report of the Captain General of the garrison. He is succeeded by the Prime Minister, who has long inter view with the Queen on affairs of state every day but Monday, when she pre- sides at a Cabinet council instcad. At 12 the royal family sit down to dejeuner, at which meal the little king always as- sists, though only as a spectator, of course. At 3 one of the minist- IS pre- sents himself with the decrees and state papers of different kinds which await her signature. Twice week she holds levee, and it is rarely over before 6. The other days she takes drive without an escort or any other show of state. After dinner the royal party amuse themselves with cards, or talk literature and art with Count Worthy, who is an accomplished musician, and at il the Queen retires to seek the rest to which she is too we'll entitled after her fatigu. ing days work.
 ] Fashion Notes.
 White jackets are in plain cloths made in style of covert coat.
 Pockets or outlines of the same appear upon many dressY costumes.
 The demi- train set on to the skirt, il